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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

Walt Whitman

Sexy, Men, Waiting

Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

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The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Walt Whitman

Wise, Freedom, Men

"Democratic Vistas And Other Papers".

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TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

Walt Whitman

Cities, Liberty, Earth

Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Walt Whitman

Saws

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We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

Walt Whitman

Giving, Divinity, May

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.89, NYU Press

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O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

Walt Whitman

Military, America, Mankind

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.197, NYU Press

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Walt Whitman

Evil, Roaming, Littles

Walt Whitman, “Roaming In Thought”

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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

Walt Whitman

Miracle, Knows

Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Walt Whitman

Exercise, Past, America

Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

Love, Travel, Tourism

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

Walt Whitman

America, Singing, Carols

"I Hear America Singing" l. 1 (1867)

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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Walt Whitman

Dimes, Leaves Of Grass, Earth

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.79, NYU Press

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

Walt Whitman

Death, Night, Hands

'Reconciliation'

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O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

Walt Whitman

Air, Space, Lasts

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

Walt Whitman

Men, Dumb, Tongue

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Walt Whitman

Science, Leaves Of Grass, Amazement

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

Walt Whitman

Horse, Mystery, Stout

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Walt Whitman

Men, Government, Despotism

Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

Walt Whitman

Memories, Wreaths, Unions

Walt Whitman (1990). “Memoranda During the War”, p.82, Applewood Books

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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

Walt Whitman

Writing, Tools, Tribes

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If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman

Numbers, People, Personality

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Walt Whitman

Leaves Of Grass, Democratic, Character Education

Walt Whitman (2015). “Poems By Walt Whitman”, Walt Whitman

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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

Walt Whitman

Men, Eccentric, Sanity

Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Walt Whitman

Struggle, Book, Reading

Walt Whitman (1876). “Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed”

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I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.450, NYU Press

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Born: May 31, 1819
Died: March 26, 1892
Occupation: Poet
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